Ariel Carson’s life keeps getting turned on its ear. First when her mother deserts the family when Ariel is six, then when she drops out of UCLA and moves into a commune, then when she marries (and divorces) the wrong man, then when she gets married again – to his older brother. Just when things seem to finally be calm and normal in Ariel’s life, her ex-husband loses his job and moves in with them. In the middle of it all, her career as a sculptor takes an unexpected turn, and her best friend tosses in a surprise of her own. If Ariel thought her life was complicated before, she hasn’t seen anything yet. Award-winning writer Christy Potter was born in McPherson, Kansas three months before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and her career has been up and down more often than a NASA rocket ever since. After five years working as a reporter at her hometown newspaper, she packed her bags and headed for New York. Since then, she has graduated from college, traveled, interviewed rock stars and celebrity chefs, married, divorced, married, and written, written, and written some more. Her favorite places to write are New York's Central Park and Victoria Square, in Birmingham, England. She lives in Morristown, New Jersey.